Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From New York University's Washington Square College comes the report of youthful optimism and confusion. Senior class members polled by the yearbook, declared (1) that they expect to be earning an average of $5000 five years from now; (2) that they will not find any job acceptable unless it pays more than $25 a week; (3) that cultural subjects were worthwhile; (4) that their favorite course is the philosophy of history and civilization...
Voting for the executives of the 1940 yearbook will take place, instead, on March 14 and 15 along with the second group of Senior elections for Secretary, Permanent Class Committee, and Class Day Committee...
That Dr. Dewey's influence has also made for a certain fuzziness in academic thought was once more made evident last week when a group of his foremost followers, the three-year-old John Dewey Society, issued a yearbook...
Eleven years ago an enterprising University of Florida student named Douglas Leigh bought all the advertising space in the college yearbook for $2,000, promptly resold the space for $7,000. In 1930, when he was down to the last $9 of this fat profit, he arrived in Manhattan to hunt a job. Though modest, soft-spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string...
Exactly at noon today Redbook Chairman John F. Brooks '41 will toss in the first volume. From then until Saturday night subscribers may pick up their copies of the annual Freshman yearbook in the Union at meantime...